After reading all of these books and discussing such topics in class, I've learned a lot about myself. I've learned that all of this shit is really depressing, but that it's depressing because it's true. Since we've been reading the Powers book, I have really begun not only to assess my media usage, but to think about the ways I take breaks. Sometimes I'll think about how addicted I am to my phone and to facebook and I get angry almost at my lack of willpower. I begin to wonder what negative effects this is having on me.

Every few nights, I write. I don't post on this blog or update my twitter, but I sit down and write with a pen on paper in a journal all of the things I feel that future me would benefit from knowing, that I currently have seen, done, or gone through. I write because it calms me down and because in the end when we're all killed by a plague or we turn to zombies, no one is going to be able to use the internet. I don't want my memoirs on a hard drive or in cyber space where, ultimately, culture and history aren't measured. I will never trade in my Moleskine for a keyboard and from the looks of it, I wouldn't trade my books for a kindle. All in all I'm pretty proud of my inadvertent, much needed breaks from technology. I feel much better about my situation now.